Has a quote or series of quotes ever resonated with you? Has one ever stirred your emotions, made you stop and think for a minute? If so, you’re not alone. Meaningful, uplifting quotes have inspired countless people and have even, at times, prompted them to action.

Inspire and Impact

A great advantage of using quotes in your Twitter feed is their inspirational nature. Quotes can affect us, motivate us, push us to action. When you tweet a positive, powerful quote, you break the ice with your audience. You start a conversation that doesn’t hinge on promoting your business. This conversation could be the first step toward building a relationship with your audience.

Quotes Spark a Connection

Want to connect emotionally with your followers and elicit a response from them? Admittedly, this is a struggle at times. It’s hard to know the right thing to say to influence others. That’s when using quotes to supplement your Twitter account comes in handy. There are myriads of quotes available on virtually any topic, emotion and industry imaginable. Once you tweet the quote from your Twitter account, you begin to connect directly with other people’s emotions. This connection motivates them to action, and before you know it your tweet has been re-tweeted and discussed. And how rewarding it feels to truly engage with people this way!

Ready to Begin?

So what’s holding you back? If you love a good inspirational quote and want to break the ice and begin truly connecting with your Twitter followers, don’t hesitate! Start posting quotes that resonate with you and your audience. Remember to include the person who said or wrote the quote. It’s important to attribute the quote to the rightful author. You’ll want to experiment with different quotes and the times and days you post them. Depending on your audience, it can matter which time of day your content appears on your Twitter feed. You don’t want to overwhelm your readers with quotes – the quotes are not meant to be your only content. They are meant to supplement your content. Think of quotes as part of your Twitter content like a bass guitar in a rock song – not the main attraction, but supportive to the rest of the song. Good luck and let us know the quotes that resonate best with your audience!

If having quotes in your Twitter feed seems like the type of content that would work well for your brand, give Nimble Quotes a try. Sign up for our 30-day free trial and watch the positive results come pouring in. You’ll get 1-8 quotes per day from a choice of 10+ categories and the ability to add your own hashtags. Best yet, no software to learn and you never have to reschedule a thing. Learn more at www.nimblequotes.com! Not ready? Sign up for the Nimble Quotes newsletter instead.

Love quotes, but not from “that person”? No problem. Nimble Quotes takes customization seriously. Every subscription level provides you with the option to select or omit any author from your Twitter feed.

How to use Author Choice

In this section, you’ll learn, step-by-step, how to use Author Choice.

Once in your account, click “settings” at the top right of your screen. A drop-down menu will appear like so:

Click on “Authors”, a screen will show up with all authors in alphabetical order. Quickly find the ones you want to exclude by using the search field at the top right:

In this example, Abraham Lincoln is unchecked. That means no quotes by Abraham Lincoln will appear in this person’s Twitter feed.

Repeat as often as you like to ensure all authors you don’t want to have quotes from are unchecked.

Quotes from those authors will not appear in your Twitter feed from Nimble Quotes.

Update your settings at any time as often as you like.

Why Author Choice?

We had to find a name for the people who have spoken or written these quotes. We chose the term “author” even though many of the people who have famous and uplifting quotes would never call themselves an author, and perhaps they’ve never written a book.

Not-so famous quotes

We have users who prefer not to have quotes by some of the more ‘famous’ authors, opting instead for quotes from lesser known people. They simply check off the people they don’t want quotes from. As a result the quotes in their Twitter feed are from people that are not as famous or well-known as, say Oprah. For these users, it fits that they are sharing content that is not widely known. This helps them be a source of discovery for their audience.

Famous quotes

We have users who feel a little uncomfortable with quotes that are not from very famous people. Please keep in mind that it is not the subject or quote content that they feel uncomfortable with, rather it is that they do not know who the author is. Those users choose to have only quotes from authors they are familiar with.

When you sign in – if you decide not to change a thing, the default timing will cycle your three Nimble Quotes out per 24hrs based on the Eastern Time Zone (because we’re based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) from the Inspirational category. You can change the number of quotes, choose from 1-8 per 24hrs. Craving something more personalized? We’ve got a lot of choices around time control. Here are your options:

Time zone

Have an audience or want to build an audience in a different time zone than yours? Choose that time zone.

Days of the week

You decide if you want quotes (from 1 – 8) in your Twitter feed 7 days a week, only on weekends or just Mondays. Choose any other combination that works for you.

Time window

If the 24hr window is too much, you can change it. Our most popular time window is between 7am – 10pm, but remember – people all around the world are interested in the subjects you tweet about, consider opening your time window to 24hrs. It is always your choice, so simply set the start time of your window, and end time. Your quotes will only appear during this time.

Specific Tweet times

Would you rather your quotes go out at very specific times during the day? Choose exact times, down to the minute.

Pause/resume

This one has become a real hit. Pause your quotes at any time. Resume at any time. No need to reschedule a thing. Use this when you’re ready to tweet live from an event, join a tweet chat or get into a conversation with someone on Twitter. Nimble Quotes will never interrupt you.

As with any Nimble Quotes setting, change them anytime. Come on over and give the 30-day trial a spin. Not ready – sign up for our newsletter. To see how Nimble Quotes look when used on an active Twitter account, check out @jenkellyjen or @newimarketing.

Think of the Content Watch feature as us having your back. Watching out for you. Making sure you look good to your audience via your Twitter stream.

To put it bluntly, people make mistakes and sometimes get themselves (fairly or unfairly) into unfavourable situations or scandals. If these people happen to be well-known, news of the situation can reach far and wide and negatively affect how people view their work.

People who are known for their famous quotes are no different. One day their quote can inspire and uplift anyone who reads it. Another day, after negative news about this person hits the media, their quotes can take on a totally different meaning and may no longer be viewed as positive.

When unfavourable news breaks about an author, and that author’s quotes are in the Nimble Quotes database, we simply suspend that quote from circulation. We make no judgement on the news. Our goal is to keep our users looking good to their audience.

We’ve worked hard to ensure the quotes in the Nimble Quotes database are vetted for quality and content. These quotes are secular without a partisan, political or religious point of view. Free of questionable, controversial or offensive material. We want our users always feeling comfortable, confident and positive about the Nimble Quotes content service. We’ve got your back. Try us out. Start your 30-day trial now.

Think content as a service. A simple and personalized service to keep your Twitter account continuously active with engaging content. Our quotes are a bit different than many of the quotes you may find on social media. We ensure that each quote “author” (the person who wrote or said the quote) is attributed. We add a conversation starter to each quote. We add a hashtag to each quote. The service gives you control and personalization of days, times, quote categories and much more. Once set, your Nimble Quotes appear continuously based on your chosen settings. No need to reload or reschedule a thing.

What if I want to stop the quotes?

Joining in on a Tweet Chat or starting to live tweet from an event? You don’t want Nimble Quotes interrupting your conversation. Simply log in to Nimble Quotes and hit the Pause button. Your Nimble Quotes will stop until you log in and hit “Resume”.

How do you find the quotes?

We have a team of Canadian researchers who search for publicly available quotes. Our quotes are not promotional and carry no advertising. They are vetted for quality and content. These quotes are secular without a partisan, political or religious point of view and are free of questionable, controversial or offensive material. Try Nimble Quotes today.

Are all the quotes “inspirational”?

Our largest category, and default category is inspirational quotes. We also have specific categories of quotes on/about: Sales, Business, Books/Authors, Entrepreneurship, Fitness/Health, Leadership, Investing, Real Estate, Girl Power… about 30+ categories with more being added all the time. Choose one, a few, or all categories – whatever works for you and your strategy for sharing information on Twitter.

Is there really no software to learn?

No software to learn. If you can check off items on a “to do” list, you can use Nimble Quotes, it really is that easy. Just log in with Twitter, check off the time zone, days, times, and quote categories you want and you’re done. Come back at any time to adjust or change your settings. Change your setting as many times as you like.

How do the quotes engage my followers?

Quotes get an enormous amount of activity on Twitter. We consider engagement to be re-tweets, favorites, mentions and follows. People are touched by the wisdom, inspiration, motivation and comfort these words provide. Having quotes in your Twitter stream, in addition to the other content you share, can be an effective first step to breaking the ice, connecting and attracting people you’d like to know, learn from and perhaps, do business with. Give Nimble Quotes a try now.

What is Content Watch?

Sometimes an author, being human, may get into a scandal or a negative situation. We’ve got your back when it comes to this content. We simply suspend from our database, any quotes from authors that get into this type of situation. Learn more about Content Watch.

What does Author Choice mean?

You choose who gets to show up in your Twitter feed and who doesn’t. Many users told us that they loved quotes, except from 1 or 2 specific people. Was there a way to exclude quotes from those people ever appearing in their Twitter stream? Yes. That is what “Author Choice” does. Select, or rather, exclude those few people you DON’T want quotes from. They’ll never appear in your Twitter stream. Like all Nimble Quotes settings – adjust and change this option any time you want. Learn more about Author Choice.

What are default hashtags?

The purpose of Nimble Quotes is to help you get into the conversation. We’ve listened on Twitter and have found the most common hashtags used when talking about each quote category. We’ve selected the most common hashtags for each category and made those the “default hashtags’. For example, if you chose the Sales Quotes category, the default hashtags that would be tweeted with each sales quote would be #sales, or #sell or #selling, (we include one hashtag per quote) as an example. You always have the choice to use only your custom hashtags, or a blend of the default hashtags and your hashtags. You can switch these settings at any time.

What is custom content?

Our custom subscription is all about you. Have your own quotes or own content you’d like to share continuously on Twitter? Learn more about the Custom subscription and contact us for a conversation on how we can get your content into the Nimble Quotes system. Social media teams like this as it lets them concentrate on customer service, community building and content creation.

What happens after the 30-day free trial?

Your 30-day free trial is of the Advanced subscription complete with all the features and options for you to try out and personalize. To keep the same settings after your trial ends, you’ll want to buy the Advanced subscription.

You’re looking at about $1/day for the Advanced subscription and about $1/week for the Basic subscription. Isn’t your time worth more than $1/day?

At any time before the 30-day trial ends, log into your Nimble Quotes account and press “buy”. Choose a paid subscription (Basic or Advanced), enter your credit card details through our secure site, and you’re now a subscribed member to Nimble Quotes.

If you don’t select a paid subscription before the 30-day trial ends, on day 31 your account converts to a Complimentary subscription (1 inspirational Nimble Quote / 24 hrs with no setting options, a link back to Nimble Quotes and our hashtag). You can upgrade to a Basic or Advanced subscription at any time to get your Nimble Quotes back to quote categories, custom hashtags and timing that makes most sense for your audience.